It's wild that there was a feeling when that computer came out of "this is the coolest computer design ever," and then the world moved past that.
You can look at the iMac line and see that they moved to a more laptopy everything-in-the-screen design, which got rid of the base altogether. But it's weird and sad that there was a "best" and then things that came after the best that were less fun, and two decades later we all still seem to feel that way.
I suppose part of that was all the attention that shifted to touchscreen phones, and computers becoming thought of as practical work tools.
You can look at the iMac line and see that they moved to a more laptopy everything-in-the-screen design, which got rid of the base altogether. But it's weird and sad that there was a "best" and then things that came after the best that were less fun, and two decades later we all still seem to feel that way.
I suppose part of that was all the attention that shifted to touchscreen phones, and computers becoming thought of as practical work tools.